Word: halfbacks
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...Olympics are obviously on the announcer's side, but some of them once had more strenuous thoughts. Staff Writer Le Anne Schreiber, who wrote the cover story, recalls the time when as a ten-year-old she hid her hair under a stocking cap and tried out for halfback on the football team of her Evanston, Ill., Catholic grammar school. "I was beating this guy out for the position," Schreiber says, "so he pulled off my cap, and the priest who was coaching the team shrieked, 'It's a girl!' and ordered me off the field...
...Michigan center and the Hollywood halfback, as well as for all those candidates who have never tackled anyone tougher than an elusive voter, June 8 will be Super Bowl day. At stake in California, New Jersey and Ohio on the final day of the long season of primaries is a total of 540 Democratic and 331 Republican delegates-and that may just be the ball game. Those potentially climactic contests are examined here by TIME West Coast Bureau Chief Jess Cook, New York Bureau Chief Laurence I. Barrett and Midwest Bureau Chief Benjamin W. Cate...
...most famous movie role, Ronald Reagan, as the strep-stricken Notre Dame halfback George Gipp, insisted on going to Illinois to play the Big Game against Northwestern. He made the do-or-die try, and sure enough-in a scene worth three wet handkerchiefs-he died soon afterward...
...priesthood (which men can hold after age 12) has grown into a central Mormon issue in Cambridge and the East. The doctrine causes few problems in the lily-white far west; Larry Dewey say the only black he had talked to before he came to Harvard was a halfback for nearby Borah High. But mention of the ban brings stories of blacks who broke off friendships because of the prohibition, although this is not always true: Carlyn Christensen '74 roomed with a black woman sophomore year...
...Bill's athletic prowess is famous back home in Wallingford, Pennsylvania. In fifth grade, Bill played defensive back and halfback on what became the first of his many championship teams, the 115-lb. Terriers. The next year the Terriers won the championship again, undefeated and unscored upon. People began to speculate about his school career...